Alaska polar bear shot dead after fatally attacking woman and child

Posted on AllSides January 18th, 2023
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Alaska State Troopers said they received a call at 2:30 p.m. about a polar bear chasing “multiple” residents in the roughly 150 person city in the western coastal town of Wales, Alaska. “The bear fatally attacked an adult female and juvenile male,” police report. “It was shot and killed by a local resident as it attacked the pair.” The victims’ identities were being withheld until family could be notified, police said. Troopers and wildlife officials planned to travel to Wales “as weather conditions allowed.” Temperatures hovered around -10 degrees in...

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